News of midterms 2025

The curtain falls … and rises

13-12-2025 09:17 The new Senate has no less than 13 caucuses but the big picture has 21 senators responding directly to the Javier Milei administration, 26 in the Kirchnerite orbit, 14 in the centre-right and 11 heeding purely provincial interests.

by Michael Soltys

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Disunited provinces II

29-11-2025 05:13 La Libertad Avanza won in 15 of 23 provinces, including the largest, with Tucumán the most important outside the fold. Opposition candidates only enjoyed a clear lead in half their provinces won, although LLA margins were extremely slender in four of their 15 victories, including the main prize of Buenos Aires Province.

Campaign comments

The City and the Senate

15-11-2025 05:05 While the government’s overall midterm triumph represented a huge shift from gloomy pre-electoral expectations, this city’s results did not show that much change from last May’s local voting.

by Michael Soltys

Campaign comments

The colour purple

01-11-2025 06:10 Despite governing the province for 34 of the last 42 years, the Peronists ran up a hat-trick of national midterm defeats there last Sunday – in 2017, in 2021 and in 2025.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS & CONGRESS

President plans structural reform blitz after midterms triumph

30-10-2025 09:04 President promises new economic roadmap built on labour, tax and pension overhauls; Milei government says the reforms will restore fiscal balance and set the country on a path to long-term growth.

ELECTIONS 2025

Make or break for Milei as nation votes in key midterm election

26-10-2025 00:01 Argentines will vote to renew half the 257-member Chamber of Deputies and a third of 72 senators; Peronism has around half of its seats up for renewal, while the ruling party’s alliance with PRO risks around 30%.

Editorial

Tomorrow never knows

25-10-2025 05:55 While the markets vote every day, the ordinary citizen should make the most of their one moment when they are sovereigns with everybody awaiting their decision.

POLITICS: MIDTERMS 2025

Caputo: Midterms are 'more important than 2027 presidential vote'

22-10-2025 23:44 Economy Minister Luis Caputo says current exchange rate regime “will remain exactly the same” in an attempt to dispel fears of an imminent post-election peso devaluation.

ELECTION 2025

Electoral authorities say midterm results must be released by district

22-10-2025 13:37 Milei’s government bid to have results combined in a national count shot down; National Electoral Appeals Court has rules that provisional count should be province by province.

CURRENCY TURBULENCE

Peso breaks losing streak amid FX intervention

22-10-2025 13:11 Argentina's peso strengthened, snapping a five-day losing streak amid continued market intervention by both the local and US governments.

BUSINESS

CEOs strive to surf Milei volatility at annual retreat

19-10-2025 09:35 Upcoming national election and volatility in financial markets dominates conversation at annual gathering in Mar del Plata.

ANALYSIS

On raucous outsiders and statesmen

18-10-2025 06:47 The Milei administration has shown time and time again they lack the capacity to build sustainable political alliances and that stubbornness on the economic front has led to the repetition of mistakes from the recent past. The President has shown that when political momentum is on his side, he abuses good fortune to castigate political opponents and preach cultural war.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Editorial

Washington does not believe in tears

18-10-2025 06:39 If the next crop of deputies and senators is to be chosen according to the slogan “libertad o kirchnerismo,” this will guarantee a further impoverishment of debate.

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

‘Panic Show’ name of the game

11-10-2025 06:00 We are told that the choice is “libertad or kirchnerismo” but neither libertarians nor Kirchnerism will be able to do very much with the 110 of the 257 seats accruing to whoever wins – Argentina’s middle ground has far less seats than Brazil’s "centrão" but could carry equivalent clout.

by Michael Soltys

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

A spooky Halloween earlier this month?

04-10-2025 06:38 To lay any claim to a positive result, pundits suggest that Milei would need to be the leading minority with at least 35 percent of the vote. The first objective looks like a done deal since LLA is the only nationwide contender.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS

Cabinet discontent grows over Espert narco allegations

02-10-2025 16:30 President Javier Milei himself is the main defender of the congressional candidate – but dissatisfaction is growing over the lawmaker's disastrous television appearances.

POLITICS & CORRUPTION

Espert called to Casa Rosada as opposition demands resignation

02-10-2025 16:11 Calls ramp up for top name on the ruling La Libertad Avanza party’s list of candidates in the upcoming election to step side amid revelations over links to suspected narco-trafficker; Polling shows scandal may damage chances in midterms.

by James Grainger

INTERVIEW

Myriam Bregman: ‘We denounced Espert’s ties to drug-trafficking in 2021’

02-10-2025 14:31 Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores candidate for national deputy discusses allegations against ruling party lawmaker José Luis Espert that link La Libertad Avanza figure to suspected drug-trafficker.

Campaign comments

The future’s not ours to see

27-09-2025 06:25 Mayoral tails wagged gubernatorial and presidential dogs in Buenos Aires Province but next month’s midterms stand to be genuinely, not synthetically national with the state of the economy and the quality of governance deciding votes.

by Michael Soltys

Analysing Argentina

Wake Milei up when September ends

20-09-2025 06:25 Both the economy and the politics of the country are telling President Milei he cannot fly solo anymore.

by Marcelo J. García

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Milei’s ‘boss’ becomes liability after brutal loss

09-09-2025 13:44 A humiliating election defeat is forcing President Javier Milei to face up to a series of political miscalculations – chief among them, his reliance on his beloved sister.

ELECTIONS 2025

What’s at stake in Sunday’s election

05-09-2025 10:57 There is a lot riding on the legislative elections in Buenos Aires Province. In addition to being watched by the rest of the country, the results on September 7 will have an impact on the markets and all political actors.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ELECTIONS 2025: BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE

Milei targets Peronist heartland in high-stakes vote

05-09-2025 09:11 President Javier Milei is fighting to keep his libertarian revolution alive in the highest-stakes election since he took office.

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Swimming against the current

30-08-2025 06:04 The undecided in Corrientes could just top up Juan Pablo Valdés over the 40 percent needed to ensure first-round victory, although the current Zeitgeist of voter apathy would make it likelier for them to sit this one out.

by Michael Soltys

politics

President unhurt after being attacked in Lomas de Zamora

27-08-2025 17:02 Security guards acted quickly to shield the group and the convoy was diverted before reaching its destination.

EDITORIAL

Veto swings and roundabouts

23-08-2025 07:04 The best way for Milei to defend his cherished fiscal surplus would not be knee-jerk vetoes but to present a budget – something which will require thinking outside the box and not just the chainsaw.

Analysing Argentina

How can the new centrists kill polarisation?

23-08-2025 07:01 The centre might be the only viable solution for a country like Argentina, but who would vote for a dull, rationality-driven politician when you have the angry mob?

by Marcelo J. García

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Milei comes out swinging as setbacks pile up before key vote

21-08-2025 18:09 President Javier Milei suffers rapid-fire political, economic and financial setbacks as his most daunting electoral test yet draws near.

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Between heaven and hell

16-08-2025 06:22 As Milei and his economic team struggle to contain financial stress, his popularity and therefore expected electoral victory is under threat.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Politics

Kicillof tells voters to express ‘anger against austerity’ in vote

15-08-2025 10:27 Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof calls voters to express their “anger against austerity” at the ballot box next month.

POLITICS: MIDTERMS 2025

Milei vows to end Kirchnerism, lets rip at Kicillof during campaign rally

14-08-2025 21:24 President placed at front and centre of La Libertad Avanza’s electoral strategy in Buenos Aires Province as party leaders hope to transfer his national popularity to local election.

POLITICS: MIDTERMS 2025

Candidate debate: Decisive week for Argentina’s political forces

11-08-2025 12:08 Political parties are locked in last-minute negotiations to finalise their candidate lists before Sunday’s registration deadline; LLA-PRO alliance confirmed as PJ inks Fuerza Patria front in just over half of provinces.

Campaign comments

Deadlines or lifelines?

09-08-2025 06:52 We have confirmation of one important definition – the La Libertad Avanza far right and the PRO centre-right extending their Buenos Aires Province alliance to this city.

by Michael Soltys

Editorial

Thinking outside the box

09-08-2025 06:22 For both government and opposition, the question is more or less spending on pensions with few stopping to consider how more can come out of less.

ANALYSING ARGENTINA

A big win in midterms would be bad news for Milei

20-07-2025 19:05 A huge victory might encourage Milei and his team to stick to the peso appreciation which is both keeping inflation down and pleasing the upper and high-middle classes of Argentina.

by Marcelo J. García

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Caputo’s ‘buy ‘em up champ’ and Milei’s ‘Epstein moment’

20-07-2025 17:32 Leonardo Scaturicce is said to have been instrumental in staffing the DGI tax office which remains under operational control of Santiago Caputo, as does the SIDE spy agency.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Campaign comments

Midterms in midyear

28-06-2025 07:24 Given the total inability of the protagonists in Buenos Aires Province to get their act together, the midterms still four months away are looking more like candidates for “It’s the economy, stupid” than ever.

by Michael Soltys

Elections 2025

Milei launches La Libertad Avanza's campaign in Buenos Aires Province

27-06-2025 15:37 At LLA congress in opposition stronghold of Buenos Aires Province, Milei brands Governor Axel Kicillof “a junior Stalin” and frames regional vote as choice between “civilisation or barbarism.”

Campaign comments

Begin the begin

21-06-2025 06:28 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is paradoxically sidelined and occupying centre stage at the same time. With her exclusion from any electoral candidacy, the campaign effectively starts again.

by Michael Soltys

ELECTIONS 2025: BUENOS AIRES CITY

City elections: Initial results show La Libertad Avanza surge in capital

18-05-2025 19:48 with 90% of polling stations reporting, La Libertad Avanza's slate headed by Manuel Adorni has 30% of the vote, trailed by Peronist Leandro Santoro on 27% and Silvia Lospennato of PRO on 15.9%.

ELECTIONS 2025

San Luis: Poggi’s ruling coalition defeats Rodríguez Saá’s Peronists

12-05-2025 18:35 Ahora San Luis front, led by Governor Claudio Poggi, defeats Peronist coalition of former provincial governor Alberto Rodríguez Saá. With 80% of votes counted, the ruling coalition has 46.8%, comfortably ahead of Frente Justicialista.

ELECTIONS 2025

Sáenz tightens grip on Salta, Milei’s party pulls off upset in capital

11-05-2025 22:38 Governor’s ruling alliance sweeps vote for legislature, winning 31 of 42 seats; President Javier Milei hails win in provincial capital as La Libertad Avanza advances in north.

ELECTIONS 2025: BUENOS AIRES CITY

City polls: Santoro in lead, Adorni and Lospennato battle for second

07-05-2025 15:11 New polling by Tendencias and Circuitos consultancy firms give Es Ahora Buenos Aires candidate an advantage of at least six points over La Libertad Avanza, PRO hopefuls.

Editorial

Will April showers bring May flowers?

03-05-2025 07:45 Critics of the exit from the ‘cepo’ currency and capital controls argue that it opens the door to speculative peso-dollar shuffles. Whether or not they are right will go much further towards defining the outcome of the October midterms than any cultural battles.

ELECTIONS 2025: BUENOS AIRES CITY

Fragmented field means little debate in City debate

30-04-2025 15:54 Seventeen candidates standing in Buenos Aires City Legislature elections on May 18; Debate delivers insults and crossed words, but little in the way of policy.

Analysing Argentina

Milei and the bicycle temptation

19-04-2025 06:00 The Milei government is confident it can make it to the midterm elections in October without major volatility. But this relative calm — won by force of debt — should not obscure the storm that was brewing before the cash injection.

by Marcelo J. García

Campaign comments

First day of the rest of the year

19-04-2025 06:00 Economists have hailed the exit from the cepo as a milestone but this columnist hesitates to consider it an electoral game-changer – there is both too much and too little time for that.

by Michael Soltys

Editorial

Floating on air?

19-04-2025 06:00 Milei might echo Alfonsín by proclaiming: “Happy Easter, the dollar is in order” but early days – a more total exit from currency and capital controls by Macri in in late 2015 was even smoother, without ensuring him a happy ending.

Politics: Elections 2025

First regional ballot test for Milei in Santa Fe Province

13-04-2025 09:09 Sunday's election in third-most-populous province of 2.8 million voters will pick delegates to a convention set to reform the regional constitutional assembly.